Sources & credits
With gratitude
Besorah stands on the work of many scholars, translators and open-source projects. Each is listed with its licence, and where a licence asks for it, the data we derived from it is shared back openly. Nothing here implies endorsement by the creators of the texts, data or typefaces.
Texts
- Westminster Leningrad Codex (Hebrew) — Public domain
- Brenton Septuagint (Greek & English) — Public domain
- Jastrow’s Dictionary of the Targumim and BDB’s Aramaic lexicon (Aramaic lemmas and meanings), via Sefaria — Public domain
- World English Bible (Deuterocanon; modern English for the Apocrypha) — Public domain
- World Messianic Bible — Public domain (“World Messianic Bible” is a trademark of its publishers)
Text unchanged; verse boundaries re-versified onto the Hebrew numbering. Not endorsed by the translators. - SBL Greek New Testament — CC BY 4.0 · © 2010 Society of Biblical Literature & Logos Bible Software
Adapted: cleaned, tagged and re-flowed for this reader. Licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. - Hebrew New Testament (Salkinson–Ginsburg) — Public domain
- Targum Onkelos, Pseudo-Jonathan and Jonathan to Isaiah (Aramaic) — Public domain
Aramaic texts from Sefaria (Torat Emet; Mikraot Gedolot). Aligned to the Hebrew verse numbering; a verse a Targum folds into the one before is left blank. - The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel (English) — J. W. Etheridge, 1862–65 — Public domain
Onkelos from eBible.org; Pseudo-Jonathan via Sefaria. Isaiah: the London “Chaldee Paraphrase”, 1871 (via Sefaria).
Study data
- Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (lemmas, morphology) — CC BY 4.0
Adapted: aligned to this app’s word tokens. - MorphGNT (Greek morphology) — CC BY-SA 3.0
Tauber, J. K., ed. (2017) MorphGNT: SBLGNT Edition. Our derived files are shared under the same licence (see Open data). - Strong’s dictionaries — Open Scriptures — CC BY-SA
From James Strong’s 1890 dictionaries (public domain). Our trimmed lexicon is shared under the same licence. - Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables — Berean Standard Bible text: public domain · alignment tables: licence being confirmed
- Septuagint morphology (Rahlfs 1935) — OpenScriptorium lxx-morph — CC BY 4.0
LXX morphology data by Seth Kushniryk, derived from the Rahlfs Septuagint (Eliran Wong digital edition). Adapted: matched to Brenton’s text, Strong’s numbers by lemma, transliteration and glosses added. - OpenBible.info cross-references — CC BY 4.0
Top-voted links per verse, remapped to Hebrew numbering. - Copenhagen Alliance versification mappings — Open data (licence being confirmed)
- Hebcal (Torah portion calendar) — CC BY 4.0
Torah portion calendar © Hebcal.com.
Typefaces
- Alegreya — SIL OFL 1.1
- Cormorant Garamond — SIL OFL 1.1
- Cardo · EB Garamond · Gentium Plus · Source Serif 4 · Frank Ruhl Libre · David Libre · Noto Serif Hebrew — SIL OFL 1.1
- Shofar (Culmus) — GPL-2 with font-embedding exception